HMS Serapis was a fifth-rate ship of the Roebuck class designed by Sir Thomas Slade for use in the shallow coastal waters around North America.

Her first commission was brief, lasting from December 1782 to April 1783, and she did not serve again until the French Revolutionary War, when she was fitted as a storeship and sent to the West Indies.

Following a spell in the Mediterranean, Serpais returned home with sick and injured on 24 May 1797, where she was immediately caught up in the fleet mutiny at the Nore.

She sailed for the Cape in April 1808 but by 1809, she was back in the North Sea, and took part in the Walcheren expedition between 30 July and 16 August that year.

Serapis made further trips to the Mediterranean and West Indies, serving as a convalescent ship in Jamaica and a prison hospital in Bermuda.

HMS Serapis was a fifth-rate warship of the Royal Navy designed by Sir Thomas Slade to operate in the shallow coastal waters of North America.

[2] The Admiralty ordered Serapis on 13 July 1780 and work began in the May following, when her keel was laid down at the yard of James Martin Hillhouse in Bristol.

In August 1794, work began at Chatham, converting Serapis for use as a storeship and in December, she was recommissioned under Master and Commander, Charles Duncan.

[9] Duncan, and the captains and crews of other escaped ships, received a letter of thanks from the committee assembled to thwart the mutiny.

Under the command of Commodore Samuel Hood's, flying his flag in HMS Centaur, the expedition also included Emerald, Pandour, the 28-gun sixth-rate Alligator, the 12-gun schooner Unique, the 12-gun corvette Hippomenes, and the 8-gun Drake, together with 2,000 troops under Brigadier-General Sir Charles Green.